Deficit and Debt

Via Anon.

An article in noted liberal rag Townhall.com notes that under Obama, the government's yearly deficit has shrunk aster than any President since LBJ.

Freepers could just crow how awesome the GOP House's sequester has been and move on, but they either can't be arsed to make the connection, or they really want to blame Obama for all things. Thus, they decide math has a liberal bias.

Cubs Fan knows America didn't have debt until January 2009.

Absurd, the deficit has grown to nearly a trillion every year. This article is a joke.

dontreadthis assumes the author of liberal statistics skewing:

the mathematical priciple is simple: redistribution is not spending

BitWielder1 also knows the numbers lie:

If you torture numbers you can make them say anything - and these ones are screaming for help.

dalereed also:

” The fact that you can make a case for him being a fiscal conservative speaks ill of statisticians.”

i was taught in stasticts that it was a course in how to make figures lie.

If you really want to tell a big lie, use a graph!!

Speaking of graphs: jwalsh07 funds a graph of a different number that doesn't look so good:

Some truth. You don't have to adjust for inflation, TARP or anything else. The data is the data and it does not show Obama as limiting government one damn bit.

[graph of spending/GDP]

Teacher317

Trashing the value of the dollar helps him greatly in this statistical fantasy.

Uh-oh. The numbers in usconservative's head don't agree with the numbers in another Freeper's head!

Bush started with the national debt at $5.9 trillion and end it at $10.7 trillion.

Obama started with that $10.7 trillion and is currently around $17.5 trillion.

In 2012 the national debt exceeded 100% of the US GDP.

Where'd you get those figures? I had seen the national debt at 7.2T when Bush took office and around 9.5T when he left. (Don't remember where I saw that...)

usconservative mixes up debt and deficit. Also, racism:

Obama ... "most frugal?"

BULLSHIT.

He's DOUBLED the National Debt by himself. Tell me again how "frugal" the hnic is.

hnic? Googling...Head Nigger in Charge....bleagh.

ridesthemiles - if there isn't a budget, spending decreases don't count!

Sooooooo- What category contains the “Vacations” that MOOOOOCHELLE & Barry have gone on?

WHAT BUDGETS?

A ‘continuing resolution’ is NOT a budget!!!